Daily Dothttp://www.dailydot.com/Daily Dot Articleen-usFri, 12 Oct 2012 14:20:13 +0000How the VP #debate played out on Twitterhttp://www.dailydot.com/news/vp-debate-twitter-summary/<p><img src='//cdn0.dailydot.com/cache/93/11/931194cf518fbb4220d649a399d49bd2.jpg'></p><p>
The quick-to-the-draw Barack Obama campaign hopped aboard a number of steamrolling hashtags and Twitter searches Thursday night, buying promoted tweets to display at the top of several searches.</p>
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During the vice presidential debate, Twitter <a href="http://mashable.com/2012/10/11/obama-campaign-twitter-ad-malarkey/">displayed ads</a> for Obama during searches for &ldquo;malarkey&rdquo; (a term Vice President Joe Biden used a few times in the battle), &ldquo;Biden his time,&rdquo; #VPdebate, &ldquo;Jack Kennedy&rdquo; and others.</p>
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Mitt Romney&rsquo;s campaign team <a href="http://thehill.com/blogs/twitter-room/other-news/261597-ryan-biden-prepare-to-fight-ahead-of-vp-debate">wasn&rsquo;t idle either</a>. It bought promoted tweets for searches of both candidates names and for the <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/debates">#debates hashtag page</a>.</p>
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More than four million tweets related to the debates were sent during the course of the evening, <a href="http://blog.twitter.com/2012/10/recapping-vp-debate.html">Twitter said</a>, with foreign policy (discussed in 26 percent of those tweets), the economy (21 percent), and taxes (16 percent) among the hot topics for the community.</p>
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The peak tweets-per-minute rate of 58,275 occurred after Biden said &ldquo;Now you&rsquo;re Jack Kennedy.&rdquo; Ryan took second spot with 55,540 tweets per minute after claiming: &ldquo;They got caught with their hand in the cookie jar turning Medicare into a piggy bank for Obamacare.&rdquo;</p>
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Biden&rsquo;s use of the word &ldquo;malarkey&rdquo; generated more than 30,000 related tweets.</p>
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Notable parody accounts to emerge during the debate included many poking fun at Biden&rsquo;s often-jocular attitude such as <a href="https://twitter.com/LaughinJoeBiden">@laughinjoebiden</a>, <a href="https://twitter.com/BidensTeeth">@bidensteeth</a>, and <a href="https://twitter.com/BidenSmirk">@bidensmirk</a>. <a href="http://www.dailydot.com/politics/hey-girl-paul-ryan-meme/">@PaulRyanGosling</a>, which squishes together Ryan with the Ryan Gosling &ldquo;hey girl&rdquo; meme, was <a href="https://twitter.com/PaulRyanGosling/status/256581719333953536">highly critical</a> of Ryan.</p>
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With @BeanRyan disappointingly unavailable thanks to another Twitter user registering it in 2009, <a href="https://twitter.com/BEANRYANN">@BEANRYANN</a> cropped up to poke fun at Ryan&rsquo;s nickname for his daughter, which he discussed while answering a question on abortion.</p>
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<em>Photo via <a href="about:blank">TheNewYorkTimes</a>/YouTube</em></p>
kris@dailydot.com (Kris Holt)Fri, 12 Oct 2012 14:20:13 +0000http://www.dailydot.com/news/vp-debate-twitter-summary/NewsTwitter